It looks like CNN succumbed to pressure to be more "balanced" by running a misleading story on Harry Reid's land deal titled "Reid's Jackpot". This report was billed as the second biggest story of the day after the intro teaser on the lastest Foley scandal developements on Lou Dobb's show today. Balanced indeed.
The lead-in had the fill in anchor Kitty Pilgrim talking about the Foley scandal and how Dems now also had an ethical problem of their own with Reid "under fire" for his "Windfall" from the sale of his land. The background graphic was a picture of Reid with the word "Jackpot" next to him above a picture of the Las Vegas welcome sign. The report itself covered all the points from the AP article and they got some headcase from Judicial Watch to say what a bad thing Reid had done by not reporting correctly. The story then went into how Reid's partner in the land deal was a lawyer "who had dealing with Casinos" as if this was somehow noteworthy (in Las Vegas?!) and possibly shady.
However, the story ended with a thud as Pilgrim asked the reporter straight out "Did Reid break the law?" to which he answered "No, not that we know of at the moment". Wow, all that build up for essentially a non-story to balance a major Republican Sex Scandal coverup. So Reid didn't break the law and disclosed the sale as required but may have messed up some filing technicality. This is considered enough of a story to get packaged as a major report on a possible Democratic ethical scandal? Is this supposed to imply that Democrats making lots of money in business is somehow suspect but it is normal and fully expected when Republicans make huge profits? Give me a break!
Earlier, Wolf Blitzer had on pompous gasbag hypocrite Bill Bennett to talk about about Chris Shay's despicable attempt today to bring up Chappaquiddick to counter the Sex page scandal ("At least no one died") and Wolf allowed Bennett to state without challenge that it was absolutely fair to bring up a nearly 40 year old event because the Dems were pushing the Foley scandal too much.
Obviously we are mistaken if we think only Fox is the only one to engage in this type of "Fair and Balanced" reporting.